Wikimania 2007 Call for Participation

Posted by Angela Beesley on March 1, 2007 (Events, Wiki)

Wikimania released its call for participation today. Wikimania, the most popular wiki conference, is an annual global event devoted to the Wikimedia projects. This year’s conference will be held from August 3-5 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Wikimania is set around three themes this year: Wikimedia Communities, Free Content, and Technical infrastructure. Papers, panels, workshops, and discussions around any of these topics are welcome. I’m leading the Wikimedia Communities presentations section, so if you’d like to help with reviewing these submissions, please contact me.

Wikia is sponsoring the event and also offering scholarships to Wikia editors who would like to attend. See Wikia’s page on Wikimania for details of how to apply for funding.

See also WikiSym’s call for papers.

4 Comments

  1. Jon said,

    March 3, 2007 at 3:13

    Angela,

    I’ve been sniffing around the Wikimania 2007 site for a few months. Can anyone submit a paper/panel/discussion? I’m not sure it’s clear where and how to do this?

    Incidentally, I was in Taiwan two years ago and love collecting funny english translations. Here’s a gem on wikimania2007… http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration

    “Your support is to give us the greatest encourage.”

    I love it!

  2. Angela Beesley said,

    March 3, 2007 at 3:18

    Anyone will be able to submit a paper, panel, discussion, or workshop, but the topic of that must be somehow relevant to the Wikimedia community. The actual submission system isn’t up yet, though should be within about a week. Keep an eye on http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission

  3. Jon said,

    March 3, 2007 at 5:16

    Thanks, Angela. Will do!

  4. jay said,

    March 8, 2007 at 2:14

    hello .

    here is korea, and I am a reporter working for computer magazine, I love PC, the leading one in Korea.

    the reason I sent you an e-mail is that I want to interview with you about wikipedia.

    we had an interview with Kevin Rose of Digg.com and printed the interview on March issue of magazine.

    as you know, Korea is the most powerful competitive country on internet. korean is used to access internet for information all around world. and wikipedia is very famous to us.

    that is why I ask you an interview.

    I am qurious about several thing about wikipedia, when and how this project opened and how you run wikipedia, and so on.

    If you don’t mind, I am planning to send you an e-mail that include my questions. all you have to do is answer that.

    I hope your postive answer.

    bye.

    Lee, Jeung Il
    editor & news
    I LOVE PC magazine in Korea.
    http://www.ilovepc.co.kr(web site)
    http://leejil.egloos.com/(blog)
    Computer Life Co., Ltd.
    (zip code) 150-874
    DongSung BLDG. 9F 17-8 Yoido-dong
    Yeongdeungpo-gu Seoul, Korea